Genus
Valid Extinct

Wahlisaurus

Lomax 2017

Wahlisaurus is an extinct genus of leptonectid ichthyosaur from the Scunthorpe Mudstone of England. The type species is Wahlisaurus massarae, and two specimens have been found: the first consisting of a skull and an incomplete skeleton, and the second a single coracoid.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Ichtyosaures
Carnivore nektonic Marine
Wahlisaurus
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Life reconstruction of Wahlisaurus massarae © Nobu Tamura email:nobu.tamura@yahoo.com http://spinops.blogspot.com/ · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Ichthyosauria Unranked clade
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Parvipelvia Unranked clade
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Neoichthyosauria Unranked clade
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Leptonectidae Family
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Wahlisaurus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
1
Geological formations
Scunthorpe Mudstone
1
Temporal distribution
Hettangian (201.4–199.5 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Wahlisaurus massarae 201 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
D. R. Lomax. 2017. A new leptonectid ichthyosaur from the Lower Jurassic (Hettangian) of Nottinghamshire, England, UK, and the taxonomic usefulness of the ichthyosaurian coracoid. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15(5):387-401 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
D. R. Lomax. 2017. A new leptonectid ichthyosaur from the Lower Jurassic (Hettangian) of Nottinghamshire, England, UK, and the taxonomic usefulness of the ichthyosaurian coracoid. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15(5):387-401 DOI ↗